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authordave <dave@b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e>2004-12-04 05:38:17 +0000
committerdave <dave@b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e>2004-12-04 05:38:17 +0000
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Ignore leading and trailing lines in :section: blocks
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@@ -427,7 +427,17 @@ this margin are formatted verbatim.
<tt>:section:</tt> is used as the section heading, and the
remainder of the comment containing the section is used as
introductory text. Subsequent methods, aliases, attributes,
- and classes will be documented in this section.
+ and classes will be documented in this section. A :section:
+ comment block may have one or more lines before the :section:
+ directive. These will be removed, and any identical lines at
+ the end of the block are also removed. This allows you to add
+ visual cues such as
+
+ # ----------------------------------------
+ # :section: My Section
+ # This is the section that I wrote.
+ # See it glisten in the noon-day sun.
+ # ----------------------------------------
[<tt>call-seq:</tt>]
lines up to the next blank line in the comment are treated as